Pandemie-Historiker: Es gab stets einen Zyklus von Panik und Gleichgültigkeit
yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Das Jahrhundert der Pandemien
steiermark.orf.at - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from steiermark.orf.at Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
History suggests that we might forget the COVID-19 pandemic sooner than we think
Even the Spanish flu quickly faded from collective memory,
and we must ensure that the same does not happen again
By Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian
One day, this will all be over. That is hard to believe now, when even last month seemed interminable, the January that refused to end.
However, one day, not soon perhaps, we will speak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past tense. When that time comes, how will we remember the plague that visited death upon us?
So far, the act of remembering has been deferred or even forbidden. Second only to the deaths themselves, perhaps the greatest pain COVID-19 has inflicted has been its denial of the right to say goodbye.
UPDATED: January 9, 2021 07:31 IST
Winter solstice. Concealed in a cloud, Jupiter and Saturn kiss unseen. With 78 million lives interrupted by a speck of RNA gone rogue, Earth is a grisly planet. Even in an appalling year, because life is more than srushti pushti nashti, bookwards we leaned, inevitably reading more about pandemics. Words, words, words but you’ve heard that one before.
Mark Honigsbaum, with nine examples of pestilence, paints the 20th as The Pandemic Century. Armed with germ theory and antibiotics we swaggered while new pathogens spilt past species barriers. “The only thing that is certain is that there will be new pandemics and new plagues,” he guarantees.